Not To Mention a Nice Life: An Excerpt*
Sean Murphy“You’ll learn to love it,” Whitey says, and while I’m not a gambling man, I feel certain this is a bet he would lose. I drink too much and exercise…
Not To Mention a Nice Life: An Excerpt*
In the elevator we all become imbeciles. If two people fall on each other in an elevator, does it make any sound? No. Condo living, if you’re lucky, allows you…
Not To Mention a Nice Life: An Excerpt*
A few words about my commute: it’s killing me. If you don’t believe it, ask any of the anonymous near corpses suffering alongside me, their anger and impotence creating a…
Not To Mention a Nice Life: An Excerpt*
These day trips ask a lot of you, almost so much that you find yourself fondly reminiscing about the good old days you never knew, the days when horse-drawn carriages…
Not To Mention a Nice Life: An Excerpt*
She had a silver car. Here’s how you know someone has gotten to you: when, a week, or a month, or a year (or more) after they’ve left your life,…
Not To Mention a Nice Life: An Excerpt*
What are you seeing, exactly? Yourself, in a tux? Maybe marriage was the secret. You’ve felt nothing at all like envy for your friends who had wedded—happily or not—and especially…
Not To Mention a Nice Life: An Excerpt*
Take a guy. Let’s say he’s about my age: old enough to own his own condo and pay almost all his bills, who is young enough to be unmarried but…
The Howling or, 105 Years of the Big Bad Wolf
Who's afraid of the big, bad Wolf? Plenty of people, and for good reason. Fortunately for us, we are not sketchy record company executives or anyone else who may have…
Wagner at 200 or, Get Your Götterdämmerung On (Revisited)
Or, If Loving Wagner is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Reich. (More on one of the most complex and controversial composers ever, who was born 200 years ago today,…
The 50 Greatest Hockey Enforcer Names of All Time
I. Hockey rules, eh? ARE YOU WATCHING THE hockey playoffs? Don’t worry, no one else is either. Except for the relative handful of us who understand it’s the greatest, if least…